Wasn’t the ‘Greatest Generation’ running the country in the 1960’s?

In the end, it’s kind of absurd to blame any single generation for historical evolution that you don’t like.

Our “Greatest Generation “ - the proverbial ‘common man’- were not philosophers, but given the “fiery trials “ that shaped their character, they were innately honest. And they made up our body politic.

Albeit Eisenhower warned of the pernicious greed (think MIC) that was beginning to form from the massive and tempting power of Government money. The common man went to work and were very happy to just work in stead of kill or be killed. The rot behind the closed doors of greedy men cutting deals infected the whole Government, and indeed became THE defining principle of what it is today.

I knew those people, and “allowed “ is a loaded and unwarranted pejorative term. They TRUSTED their brethren to do the right thing, even into Johnson’s “Great Society “ gambit. And so did their children, until we realized that “a little leavening, leaveneth the whole lump”. Too late now. It’s a done deal. Humans are flawed , and some downright evil. Live and learn.

Or can redo

The 1960s was a great time to keep up with news. There was a new crisis every week. A few of my favorites:
Cuban missile crisis
Vietnam war protests
The sexual revolution (due to advent of the pill).
Race riots
Assassinations
DRUGS! It wasn't just mariuana. You had cocaine, heroin, speed, LSD, and lots of household products. One guy in my senior class died when his lungs froze from snorting men's spray deodorant.
Best thing: Greatest music in history (now called 'classic rock').

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So, I guess the Greatest Generation (a term I don’t like btw) allowed all of this that we are dealing with today to start happening? Both by how they ran the country and how they raised their children.

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Correct. They were a tough as nails generation because they suffered through the Great Depression and WW2. These hard times brought about a post war era of unprecedented prosperity and innovation and that generation did not want their kids or grandkids to suffer what they suffered through. The expansion of the welfare state, our current financial system and the creation of the deep state agencies due to the Cold War were honest efforts to ensure we didn’t get into another depression and to keep world peace. Unfortunately over time this grew to the behemoth and corrupt govt we have today.

But the real downward trend goes back to the early 1910s. Creation of the federal reserve, 16th amendment and 19th amendment sealed our fate

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The 1960s was a great time to keep up with news. There was a new crisis every week.

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I would put quotation marks around "crisis"; they were ALL manufactured by Big Mockingbird and its parent company, Alphabet Inc.

My memory: The "worry" quotient" from the late 60s through the 70s was next to zero.

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(extensive list of good stuff)

seems like a good period to me

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The best Jerry. The best!

Also not talked about when referencing the 60s and 70s-- the general positive vibe, friendships were easy and sincere, there was a generally accepted truth and honor system, the hope quotient was high, and there was the feeling that the future would be great -- you just "knew it".

Few kids, teens, or adults dwelt on bad news or Cronkite's / Big Mockingbird's version of politics and "reality."

The Greatest Generation deserves all the kudos it gets for their sacrifices and contributions to the country. The generations that have followed in their wake have all been pale shadows.

But there is a negative footnote. After living through and enduring very hard times in the Depression, and then the human loss and chaos of a world war, which ate up the majority of their youthful lives, they (quite naturally) wanted some peace and quiet. So they settled in the consumerist comfort of the Fifties and vegetated a bit, putting everything on auto-pilot and handing the reins over to the elites, the experts, the academics. The Dr. Spocks, the Walter Cronkites, the 'Camelot' boys. Bad, bad move. I can't really blame them under the circumstances, and after all they had gone through. But it really derailed the nation, culturally and politically. Been on a bad, downward path ever since.

That’s a common conceit I see, that one generation is responsible for the next. But it’s not true. There is no way the Greatest Generation could have imagined or known that their Leftist children would become enamored with the ideas of Marx and Foucault and seize the Institutions. Like every other generation they thought what they built would be made even greater. But that’s not how leftism works, as it seeks to replace America’s best traditions, principles, ideals and Institutions.

Add color Tv to the list…

Didn’t care phones develop during that era..